Job 14:7
Good News Translation
There is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.

New Revised Standard Version
“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

Contemporary English Version
When a tree is chopped down, there is always the hope that it will sprout again.

New American Bible
For a tree there is hope; if it is cut down, it will sprout again, its tender shoots will not cease.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

that it will sprout

Job 14:14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.

Isaiah 27:6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Daniel 4:15,23-25 I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
6Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling. 7A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it growth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.8If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:…
Cross References
Job 14:6
Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

Job 14:8
If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:

Isaiah 6:13
And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.

Daniel 4:15
I, king Nabuchodonosor, saw this dream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell me quickly the interpretation: for all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me: but thou art able, because the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

Job 14:6
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